Sanitary Panels

Taneja noted that she "doesn't consider herself an artist": though her webcomic tells short stories about discrimination and hypocrisy, its primary purpose is to cover issues ranging from victim blaming, harassment and homophobia to menstruation and democracy.

[2] Rachita Taneja uploaded the first strip of Sanitary Panels on Facebook in 2014, in response to people being arrested for denouncing prime minister Narendra Modi on the social media platform.

At the time, Sanitary Panels were simple doodles Taneja drew on her tablet and shared with her friends, but she quickly found that her work was collecting a lot of positive attention, which prompted her to start an official Facebook page for her webcomic on June 15 that year.

[4] In 2017, Sanitary Panels was covered by the Obama Foundation in a YouTube video, in which Taneja talks about the responsibility she feels to make her content as accurate and fair as possible as it reaches millions of people.

[5] Taneja finds that humour is highly effective when communicating complex ideas to large groups of people, claiming that "the best thing about the [online] medium is its inclusiveness.